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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Little Shop Of Horrors My Secret Shame

Well last weeks admissions of secret shame was so much fun I decided to try it again this week. One of my favourite movies is Little Shop of Horrors. Now if asked in the real world, I would certainly fib and pick something more along the lines of The Usual Suspects, Dances With Wolves, Malcolm X, or even Fried Green Tomatoes. Secretly I must admit however that I have a special place in my weirdo heart for Little Shop of Horrors. I like it so much that I couldn't chose a favourite scene, and so this week I'm putting up two clips. Hit me in the comment section with your secret shame movies.

The Bodyguard. The combination of Whitney Houston's incredible voice and Kevin Costner's character as a stoic, deadly, and hunky bodyguard is irresistible.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KzvN-2gaE

The Beautician and the Beast. Fran Drescher as a New York beautician and Timothy Dalton as an Eastern European potentate. How can it be anything but hilarious!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3kBEVRX5Q

Hey, it's not a shame: for our first Christmas together, I gave Mr. Feasance a copy of this film (he'd mentioned it as a childhood favorite) and a Venus flytrap. We still watch it together all. the. time; unfortunately, Audrey III left us about three months ago.

My secret shame is not so much the movie, but the fact that I dance along to Hairspray when I'm alone.

Best Little Whore House in Texas....does anyone remember that little gem? I watched it like 50 times in my teens...there is just something about Dolly and Burt romping in a bedroom in their underwear that really gets me to feeling fine....

I like anything with dancing - I do - I admit it - even Footloose - truly; excpet Flashdance, I really really don't like Flashdance- but Strictly Ballroom is my eat chocolate and wallow movie - AWESOME.

Canadian Stage Company (really reaosnable tickets too) - did a production of Little Shop last year doug and I saw - it ROCKED.

"Alarm goes off at 7 and you start uptown, you put in your 8 hours, for the powers that have always been . . . then you go downtown . . . where the cabs don't stop . . . where the food is slop . . . where the hopheads flop in the snow, down on skidrow" :D

What's wrong with LSOH? Only shameful secret I have is that unlike most people who watched that film, I cheered for Audrey II and was crying when he was killed at the end. As you can probably guess...I would have preferred the original ending they ended up cutting out.

Then again, I tend to cheer for Godzilla when he's on the rampage....someone has to stand up for humans always being the protagonists...;)

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